Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-04
CARLISLE CRITICISED.
AN UNCOMMON SUBJECT FOR DIS
CUSSiON IN THE SENATE.
Hoar Condemns the House Methods OF
Legislations and Calls Car
Isle Usurper.

Pension Refussd-The President signs
the Retaliation and Other D:iis-Late
Acts of aG Expiring Congress.
WASHINGTON CITY. March Tho debate
in the senate Thursday took arathcr unusual
direction. After the report of the confel ence
committee on the sundry civil bill had been
made, Allison, for the senate oonterrees,
said number of very necessary appropria-
tons had to be omitted from the ball at the
demand OF the house committee.
Hoar then said be desired to call the atten-
ton IF the senate 10 what seemed to him
very grave eVil-one that threatened in sub
stance a revolutionary change in the consti-
tutional methods of the government Unless
the house aud the senate both submitted to
the dictation of some three OF four men who
happened to be members of the committee on
appropriations in the house OF representa-
aves on the majority side, the great Gppro-
prlationS bills fail and an extra session be-
comes necessary, Hoar continued:
Who does not knew who is familiar with
the course of legislation III the last three or
four congresses that measure after measure
that have received substantially the unani-
NOUS approval Of this body, representing
thirty-elght American states, and which
would receive substantially unanimous APP
proval of the other house, representing the
people more directly, are not permitted to be
taken up because these appropriation bills
,held over the heads of all the business are
used TO keep them out because three or
four persons happen to dlsapprove them.
| read the other day in the newspa-
pers letter from a gentleman who was
said 10 be speaker of the house Of representa-
81 n .la-f IL,
whether he holds that office or mott 1t was
addressed to gentleman who was said to
hold the Office vi chairman of the committee on
appropriations in the house Of representatives
and to Two other gentlemen of wide national
reputation, holding high positions in the
councils OF the Democratic party. These
three gentlemen wrote to the speaker and
complained that they had not been reco5-
nlzed by him for ihu purpose of moving a
measure for the revision of the tariff-a
measure which the American people desire,
and which a majority of the members OF
that body also desired, ami the speaker re-
piled, stating his reason for refusing TO
recognize ON the floor of the BODY over
which he presided gentleman to make that
motion, that he did Got approve of the meas
ure which that gentleman proposed to move,
and that therefore lie would not recognize
him for that purpose. But he said that if
tLSoE EcAltictttCi hOuka lHtA liOpOStu
revision of the tariff into Democratic eau
Gus and would submit to what should turn
out to be the views of that caucus on the
subject whether they were the views of the
house OF representatives Or not, he then i'll
his discretion would permit that motion to
be made.
Now | say that up to any time within the
last twenty years such an attempted uSurpa-
ton of power would have created a storm in
tl,pt L.
the usurper out of his seat or would have oc-
| caSioned a revolution in the government
| itself Here is a claim advanced in the face
| OF the American people allie overthrow ing
| the constitutional power of the senate and
| the constitutional power of the house and
degrading every member IF that great AS
sembiy. " no does not know that under the
| existing condition of things legislation Is
conducted in this country under an arrange
ment by which, if every man but two or
| three in one Of the legislative bodies Of the
country happened to desire a thing TO he
| lone, 1t could not be done unless two or
three men happen also TO give it their ap-
| probation. There has not come before the
American people since the end of the war
| question for determination that involves
! such grave constitutional results as the
| question whether this Usurpatlon of mower
shall go on.
alNAi9bAi '9hA1 W a Npiitb vi Nitti- dShttl
| if it was III order for a member OF the senate
to arraign The house or any of its members
in political speech in the senate.
The presiding officer tIngalls) said that the
Massachusetts member had been strictly
within the rules
Hoar said that neither Henry Clay nor
Mr.. Blaine as speakers Of the house would
have dared to have asserted an authority
such as he had referred to. He then pro-
ceedel.
Now 1t has seemed best to a maturity of
the senate TO submit to having a law which
was passed by the senate almost unanimously
and which was never submitted to the Other
house at all eviscerated AMI ernascuiatei by
the process which has been here desCri bed
| wish for one to give notice that III my
Judgment this is the last time that that
usurpaton will be submitted to.
Beck made brief defense Of the speaker Of
the house, and declared it was ont OF place
for such an attack to be made m the senate
and that there were plenty of Republicans in
The house who, if they should say as
much as Hoar would be answered in way
they would not like, and that would be a
perfect vindiCation of the speaker
HOar disclaImed any criticism affecting the
personal honor or craftsmanship of the
speaker but insisted that the subject referred
to was legitimate matter to discuss any
where
Blackburn had been restless in his seat
since the commencement of Hears remarks.
| and he finally obtained the floor and said:
Mr. FREsIDENT-I am disposed to regret
that my colleague found it necessary to make
any reply TO the unwarranted unfounded
and inexcusabls TRADE which the senator
from Massachusetts has seen fit to Indulge
IN. 1t may he true that tine rules of tins sen
ate have become moss grown and old and
etfete to tie senator from Massachusetts but
It does occur to me that those universal rules
Of pTOpriety and self-respecU AMI CON mon
dccency should yet prevail among US I do
not think that the speaker of the American
congress needs any defense from all attack
like that emauatlGg from such u quarter
The idea OF tine senator from Massachusetts,
| assuming to stand on this floor and
preach hoTnilles on non partisan legislation is
mora absurd than the devil pratlng about
schei:.es Of universal redemption. Wherever
the name OF that speaker of the house is
known and recognized throughout this couu-
try or throughout tbs world. it Is a synonym
for all that is decent, for all that Is fair, and
Tor an immense deal of what Is able His
| Republican colleagues in that house Outside
of mere formal methodsl have atteste1 their
appreciation of his great qualities by endur-
ing meInentoes and souvenirs, and have given
proof of their appreciation Of the falsIty Of
the charge here lodged against him. He
needs no defence at the hands of my col
league, or at my hands Where he is known
an assault like that will not hurt him.
Hoar-8iay ] ask the senator question:
Blackburn-With great pleasure. am in
the habit Of seeing the senator from Massa-
| chusetts interrupt everybody and lsttlng no.
| body interrupt him. Laughter AMI applause
in the galleries
| Hoar-W hat assault does the senator from
| Kentucky refer toe What particular thing
| have SAID in regard TO the gentleman to
whom he refers in which he differs with mea
| BlICkbUrn-l will answer the senator and
| tell him. When he denominates the speaker
OF the American congress a usurper deny
ii and say nat 1t Is not true, aud nothing in
the record will sustain such an assertion
When ne says that the speaker of the Amer
lcan congress refused to submit, or state,
that he would not submit, a proposed re
vision OF the tariff Or of the taxation svsteu
OF the country ! deny that and say that it i
| not true Now | trust the senator is an
yoI ~ mt, 1 ~.